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The Commoner,
February jA floi.
15
DEMOCRATIC ISSUES
(From an interview with Mr. Bryan
in the Nashville (Tenn.) Daily News.)
"The time is ripe for a revolt, and
tho democratic party can, in my opin
ion, drive the republican party out of
power, if it will pitch its campaign
upon a high plane and convince the
; public that it is in earnest in its ef
forts to conduct the government ac
cording to the doctrine of equal rights
to all and special privileges to noDe."
Mr. Bryan was interviewed by a re-
poer for the Daily News in the li
brary at the home of former Mayor
James M. Head.
' It seems to me that the democratic
party never had a better opportunity
to malcc a successful appeal to the
people. The only thing in the way Is
the obstruction offered by the rpac-
I tionary element, which is represented
by a number of daily newspapers,
owned by corporations and edited by
republicans; which fly the democratic
flag in order to do more effective in
jury to the democratic party. think
that a great many persons are alarmed
at the plutocratic tendencies of the
republican party, but it is hard to
convince them that the democratic
party is any better, so long as so
called democratic newspapers are
more servile than many of the re
publican newspapers, in their support
of organized wealth; and so long as
office-hunting politicians seem more
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anxious about getting a chance at the
spoils, than in carrying out any re
forms. I believe that wo would bo
stronger if we could get rid of some
(and this applies to newspapers, as
well as men) whoso utterances are"
used to convince the party of insin
cerity, and whose presence in tho par
ty profanes the temple of democracy.
"There is a real and Mve issue be
tween corporate wealth on the one
side and the masses on the other, but
no party can represent the raa&ses so
long as it attempts to so shape its
policy as to collect a campaign fund
from the very syndicates and combina
tions that should be attacked.
"During the last three years, the
shrinkage in stocks amounted to over
$2,000,000,000, and the exposure of the
methods of tho trusts has opened tho
eyes of a great many people to the
truth of the indictment brought
against the trusts by tho democratic
party in 1900. A great many people
who would not ,look ahead have
learned, by experience, that the finan
ciers who have been using tho treas
ury as a private asset are just as will
ing to plunder their stockholders as
they are to extract from the public
generally.
"The time is ripe for revolt, and
the democratic party can, in my opin
ion, drive the republican paHy out of
power, if it will pitch its campaign
upon a high plane and convince the
public that it is in earnest in its ef
forts to conduct the government ac
cording to the doctrine of 'equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.'
"The reaffirmation of the Kansas
City platform is the first step towards
this end, for that will be an announce
ment that the party is not going back
ward to the position that it occupied
under Mr. Cleveland's last adminis
tration, but that it Is going forward
to meet the present issues in the same
spirit that it manifested in 189G and
1900. Not only is such a course the
right one, but it is the easiest one.
An attempt to surrender any of the
issues of the last campaign would be
followed by a prolonged struggle over
a new statement of the party's posi
tion on the money question, and no
plank could possibly be written that
would satisfy those who deserted us,
that would not (either expressly or
by .implication) indorse the republican
position. And, even if the democratic
party conceded, on the money ques
tion, everything demanded by the
Wall street democrats, it would have
the same people to fight on the trust
question, or on any other question
upon which it took a stand, because
the issues never have been gold or
silver, so much as whether the finan
ciers or the people should control.
That question is involved in every is
sue with which the party has to deal.
"Those who think that the large
dailies accurately reflect the real scn
timent ought to remember that the
same newspapers fought the Chicago
platform from 189fi to 1900, only to
find it indorsed by nearly every state
in the Union when the campaign op
ened. These so-called democratic
dailies, that "are run in the interest
of railroads, gas companies, street car
lines, telephone companies, school
book trusts, or other franchise-owning
corporations, are not safe-guides,
nor do they honestly reflect the views
of the people.
"When the primaries arc held and
the rank and file get a chance to
speak, there will, I think, be a very
different show'ng."
"Does the reaffirmation of the Kan
sas City platform in toto mean that
there are to be no additions made to
it?" was asked,,
"No," replied Mr. Bryan. "Having
reaffirmed the Kansas City platform
the party would- be prepared to write
a platform dealing with those ques
tions which will form the basis of our
campaign. Neither docs it mean, as
some havo thought, that tho money
question be mado tho paramount issue.
The Kansas City platform declared
that the money question was not the
paramount issue, and I have not,
since that time, presented it as the
paramount issue. I havo simply in
sisted that our principles not be
abandoned and that wo must meet
those phases of tho money question
which are now bofore the country in
tho same spirit that wo havo met
other phases of the money question.
To turn tho party over to the money
changers would not bo ignoring the
money question, it would simply be
authorizing further legislation hostile
to silver and hostile to greenback leg
islation, which neither tho republi
cans nor the gold democrats dare to
advocate In a platform, but which
they are already constantly striving
to secure secretly."
Asked about his choice of a candi
date to carry the democratic banner
this year, Mr. Bryan said:
"I have no deslro whatever to in
fluence the selection of a candidate,
provided he is a man who can be
trusted to carry out the democratic
principles as they were set forth in
the last platform, and as thoy will be
set forth in the next platform. I havo
simply objected to candidates whoso
opinions arc unknown, or whose rec
ords arc Indefensible, from a demo
cratic standpoint. If wo tnk a man
whose opinions aro not nnown, we not
only run a great risk, but wc will
rightly bo accused of attempting to
perpetrate a confidence game on the
public If wo tako a man whoso rec
. rd contradicts our platform the .-on-flict
between his position and the
paity's position will give the party
moic trouble than our republican op
ponents. We can stand a joint de
bate between our party and the re-
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